tincho, I think you are in agreement with the policy change that aviau suggested. Have you read the patch (which you can find at https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-go-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20160118/003015.html) or were you referring to the discussion as a whole?
If your comment was in fact related to the patch, could you outline the specific differences to the pkg-perl status quo that you dislike? I haven’t committed anything yet (see https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-go/website.git/), so I’ll wait another day to let you clarify things. On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Martín Ferrari <tin...@tincho.org> wrote: > On 04/02/16 18:57, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > I’m also in support of it. > > > > In case nobody else chimes in with an objection, I’ll commit it this > > weekend. > > Sorry I am this late to the discussion, you probably have commited the > new version by now.. Still I would like to voice my opinion for future > iterations of the policy. > > > I am sad to have missed this (I just kept saving the thread for when 'I > had time' to properly read it), as I think this is an issue I always > cared about, and hoped that it would move in a different direction from > what the discussion went to. > > I started my life in Debian in the Perl group, and so it shaped my views > pretty strongly. I always felt that was a very welcoming place, for > newbies and old-timers, where work was always appreciated, and you did > not feel alienated if you could not devote so much time sometimes (and I > finally stopped working there at some point). > > It was very low-stress, and the group succeeds in maintaining an obscene > number of packages with not so many active members. With many members > staying for years, and old members are still friends. I don't remember > any fight, just many calm technical discussions. > > A big part of all this "utopia" I am painting here - I believe - is that > nobody "owned" a package. You only put your name in Uploaders before > uploading, but you did not need to ask permission from anybody, because > the owner was the group as a whole. So, instead of asking for > permissions to fix bugs, you only discussed with the group bigger > matters, like mass-commits, changes in tooling, etc. > > If you go away, most of the time nobody actually needs you to continue > working. And I feel very relieved that I don't need to be committed for > life to all the packages I have ever uploaded there. > > To address one concern about a more open policy; to avoid clashes, you > never assume that nobody will touch the package unless you ask somehow. > In that case, you would just leave a note in the changelog, asking other > not to upload, and/or asking for help. For example, in this[1] commit. > > > > So, again, sorry for being this late to the conversation, but I hope we > can discuss this approach for a next version. > > Tincho. > > [1]: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libmemcached-libmemcached-perl.git/commit/?id=e780b94 > > -- > Martín Ferrari (Tincho) > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-go-maintainers mailing list > Pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-go-maintainers > -- Best regards, Michael
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